[Noisebridge-discuss] Moving to Lebanon

[John Adams]

There are also a large number of "second screen experience apps" aka HBO
Go, Showtime, Direct Tv, ESPN, etc that implicitly disable streaming to the
second display for DRM/Licensing purposes. It's extremely frustrating.

-j


On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Gopiballava Flaherty <
gopiballava at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 18, 2012, at 1:39, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
>
> > Some of the reviews are pretty positive, but there are a lot of people
> > unhappy with the limitations.  I guess it works in some situations, not
> > in others.  Per app, maybe?
>
> What I know is:
> There has been an API since iPad 1 that allows an app to explicitly
> display arbitrary data on the external display. On iPad 1, that was the
> only option. If an app didn't use that API, you got no output.
>
> Apps like Keynote explicitly choose to display, for example, the slides on
> the external display and the notes on the iPad display. I remember one web
> browser specifically advertised that it would show your browsing on the
> external display - Safari did not do that on the iPad 1.
>
> On the iPad 2, the HDMI cable allowed full mirroring of the built-in
> display. Any app would work with that. If an app started explicitly
> displaying data, then that would replace the mirrored data. People have
> reported that the VGA cable also does full mirroring, though Apple doesn't
> mention it specifically.
>
> Lots of people with the iPad 1 were unhappy with the lack of mirroring
> since not that many apps explicitly did it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> gopi at iPad
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